Well, I just ran my monthly tournament of Star Trek the Card Game. I've been having difficulties getting people to come out to my tournaments recently, and was a little disappointed to find that only three people had come out to the tournament.  On the plus side, they were three people I hadn't seen at a tournament before.

// Editor's note: of course, he means ST:CCG, not the Skybox thing ;-).  I think.

I had decided to play a Borg assimilate homeworld deck. It was a slow fun deck-- I really hadn't intended to play unless it was to prevent a bye.  The four of us sat down to play a few games, a Mini-tournament, if you will.
 

Round one Vs. Howling Mad Murdock

Dwight Schultz, better known to the world as either howling Mad Murdock or as Reginald Barclay was playing a Vidiian speed deck.  When asked why he wasn't playing VCM, He replied that he found the Vidiians a refreshing change. Dwight is actually a fascinating man, and our game was only half played as we spend much of the time discussing various conspiracy theories and the state of modern physics. I know that this sounds unbelievable, but Mr. Schultz is one of the most intelligent men I have had the pleasure to meet. He signed my ultra-rare Reginald Barclay.  We timed out while I had a one objective lead.

Cumulative Score 1 (+25)
 

Game two versus Dirk Benedict.
When I was a child, I idolized Starbuck, the character that Dirk Benedict played on Battlestar Galactica.  What a disappointment to meet the hollowed out shell of a man he has become. Dirk was playing a poorly thought out theme deck where all the personnel are cute chicks. It was alpha quadrant, rogue borg pinging with Kivases as the drawing engine.  Oddly, this provided me with some difficulty, as I normally try to assimilate a counterpart.  After discovering that RBM usually is a bad idea against Borg, his deck faltered, and I was quickly able to score 4 objectives for the full win.

Cumulative score: 3 ( +80)
 

Round three: Olav Vs. Mr. T.
Mr. T achieved a level of pop cultural ubiquity in the 1980s that few will ever match. Appearing in Rocky 3, the A-team, countless ads and Wrestlemania 3, Mr. T has faded from the limelight. He now earns his living as a cook in LA. He even has his own restaurant "Mr. T's"  He was playing a Bat'leth tournament deck. It was a solid, Klingon mission solver with Blood Oath for a little extra speed. I thought I had him on the ropes after I had assimilated Martok as a counterpart. As I was scouting Qo'Nos, however, Mr T stated quite plainly that he pitied the fool who plays Borg. I think he was referring to me.  One of the Borg's weaknesses came to the forefront as Mr. T beamed one of his personnel down to Qo'Nos and attacked my drone. I was therefore unable to probe the next turn. He repeated this procedure for a couple of turns, variously cloaking his ship and having it out of range of my cube--thus managing to buy himself enough time to complete his last bat'leth tournament for the win.

Cumulative score: 3 (+30)

Overall a good time was had by all. I do hope that they will be back to my next tournament.  I know that there are some major changes that I need to make to my deck before I bring it up to Edmonton for Allen's next tournament.